MEET META​CREATIVITY & INNOVATION SPEAKER. AUTHOR. ​EDUCATOR.

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Meta Wagner is passionate about helping people reach their creative potential. She is the author of What's Your Creative Type?: Harness the Power of Your Artistic Personality (Seal Press). She gave a TedxBU 2017 talk on her original model of The 5 Creative Types and is a sought-after speaker on how the power of creativity, and a deepened understanding of creative motivations, can transform organizations, teams, and individuals. She is also a contributor to Boston Globe opinion pages, was a columnist for PopMatters, and has written on pop culture and creativity for Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon, and Wall Street Journal custom studios.

Meta teaches a “cult favorite” seminar on creativity at Emerson College and courses in creative and communications writing at Emerson and Boston University.

TAKE META'S TED IDEAS QUIZ ​TO FIND OUT YOUR CREATIVE TYPE

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LEARN MORE ABOUT META'S BOOK ON CREATIVE MOTIVATIONS

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT META

​If you're looking for a speaker for your next company or organization event who will jumpstart your people into considering their creative potential, check out Meta Wagner and her book, What's Your Creative Type? She spoke at our Stone Temple Consulting company meeting, and we can't stop talking about the insights we gained.

—Mark Traphagen, Senior Director of Brand Evangelism

Meta Wagner leads us all on a fun, inspiring, and practical trip through our own psyches with What’s Your Creative Type?—convincing us as we go that the real secret to increasing your creative expression is not obsessing over the process or our tools, but understanding first our motivation to create.